Patients contract Hep C in dialysis at hospital

Fifteen people were infected with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) during hemodialysis treatments at a hospital in Anhui province since November.

Zhu Yunwu, deputy director of the hospital, said 15 of the 70 people contracted the virus during the treatments. Some 24 of the 70 tested positive for Hepatitis C, but nine of the 70 were not infected during the treatment, and must have contracted it elsewhere, Zhu said.

An uraemia patient Chu Chenqiang discovered that he was infected with Hepatitis C after he had more than 100 hemodialysis treatments in Huoshan County Hospital.